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For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle... (or) Einstein's Theory of Relativity ... (or) the Second Theory of Thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.
The minimum qualifications for Grace are surrender of ego.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed.
... a big man, and you're a little boy, I shall ask you to have some jam," I should have failed entirely to smother my laughter. Do you think the doleful one would have seen the fun of the remark if she had any power over the body or soul of that devoted child? Nay. She would have whined about slyness, and cunning hints, and greediness, and the probabilities of utter ruin and disgrace overtaking underhand schemers, until that child would have been stunned, puzzled, deprived of self-respect, and rendered entirely wretched. Long ago I heard of a doleful one who turned ...
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity
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